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(No-Model)" G. C. BAKER;

FENGE BARB AND BARBED WIRE.

Patented Feb. 27, 1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. BAKER, OF DES MOINES, IOWA ASSIGNOB TO HUGH B. HEDGE AND THERON A. NOBLE, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

FENCE-BARB AND BARBED WIRE.,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,219, dated February 2'7, 1883.

' Application filed Decm1ber29,1882. (Nomodeh) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE G. BAKER, of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Fence- Barb and Barbed Wire, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to look a single two-pointed barb-piece to a single fencewire without bending itmore than once around [0 the fence-Wire.

H eretofore twopointed barb-pieces havehad two notches in one of their sides and two of the pieces have been placed on opposite sides of a wire and bent over and half-way around it in opposite directions and then interlocked at two points by means of the notches in their side edges, to jointly embrace. the fence-wire and form a four-pointed barb.

-My improvement consists in forming a sin- 2c gle slot or notch in each side edge, equidistant from the pointed ends, and then bending the central portion of the barb-piece around the wire in such a manner as to bring the notches in the opposite edges of the barb-piece together and the projecting pointed ends at right angles to each other to be interlocked by means of the notches and to form an abutting-joint and a firmly-fixed two-pointed barb on the fence-wire, as hereinafter fully set forth.

3o Figurel of my accompanying drawings represents a flat sheet-metal or flat-wire barbpiece, of common form, excepting the notches in its opposite side edges. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing my improved barb- 5 piece interlocked upon a plain wire to form a two-pointed barb. Fig.3 is aperspective view showing a strand of plain wire twisted to my improved barbed wire to produce a barbedwire cable. Together these figures clearly illustrate the construction and utility of my invention. 1

a is the central portion of the barb-piece, that encircles the fence-wire. b I) are the pointed ends. 1 and 2 are the slots or notches formed in the opposite side edges. The complete barb- 5 piece having notches, as shown, is stamped from sheet metal or flat wire by means ofsuitable dies and a press, and may vary'in size and weight, as desired.

To apply and fasten my improved barb-piece to a wire, I place it across the wire and then bend it by means of suitable machinery to produce a single spiral coil and to cross the projecting pointed ends at right angles to each other, so that by simply pressing the abutting and notched edges together they will become interlocked, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

I claim as my invention- 1. The improved two pointed barb-piece having slots or notches 1 and 2 in itsopposite side edges, and thereby adapted to be locked upon a fence-wire, substantially as shown and described.

2. The barbpiece a b I), having slots or notches 1 and 2 ,in its opposite side edges, in combination with a plain fence-wire, substantially as shown and described, to produce an improved barbed fence-wire or barbed-wire cable.

GEORGE c. BAKER.

Witnesses MANFORD E. WILLIAMS, THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

